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> The sliver of sky observed is about the size of the queen’s eye “on a pound coin held at arm’s length,” So it can be seen by the naked eye? Granted, not at f
by daxfohl 4y ago
> The sliver of sky observed is about the size of the queen’s eye “on a pound coin held at arm’s length,”
So it can be seen by the naked eye? Granted, not at full resolution, but still, I'd have guessed several orders of magnitude smaller.
- dinosaurdynasty 4y agoThe article doesn't make it obvious but that's not the size of the galaxy, that's the size of the part of the sky they looked through. They make it sound like they looked through 100,000 galaxies in that sliver of sky and found the 2-4 older-than-anything-we've-seen-before galaxies.
- dotnet00 4y agoThat's just the size, to see it with the naked eye it'd need to be bright enough and in the right wavelength range but it is neither bright enough nor in a wavelength visible to the naked eye.